Martin Rundkvist's blog for 2006. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.Continued at Aardvarchaeology.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Zap 'em with the Truth Machine

Polygraphs, or lie detectors, don't work. They're like cold fusion: would be nice to have, but sorry, no go. The ideas behind them are pseudoscience. The best you can hope for with a polygraph is that a suspect will believe that it works, and perhaps confess when you trundle it into the interview room.

The DOD is taking proposals...which means this will be just another way for the government to waste millions of tax dollars. Since 9/11 the DOD gets what it wants, when it wants it however much it costs. Boy, I'm proud to be american. Ridiculous isn't it? We wouldn't want to feed our poor with that cash would we?